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Speaker Shelly survivor: Others licked, he still ticks
Spin CycleJust call him Assembly Speaker Sheldon Survivor. He could turn out to be the last pol standing in all New York State. As governor, Eliot Spitzer tried to threaten him but, of course, Spitzer is now gone. As Senate......Tags: Malcolm Smith, Eliot Spitzer, Sheldon Silver, Thomas P. DiNapoli, David A. Paterson
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Defunct finance titan helped set MTA on crash course
Spin CycleNine years ago, in collaboration with state officials, the mighty investment company Bear Stearns played a special role in shaping the course on which the region???s transit system now finds itself. Not only did this financial titan advise the......Tags: Malcolm Smith, Long Island Rail Road, Carl Kruger, David A. Paterson, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Skelos hints a bum-rush budget is an April Fool's errand
Spin CycleState Senate Republicans may throw a wrench in Democrats??? plans to quickly pass a new state budget before the April 1 start of the fiscal year. Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) said Monday night that Republicans would......Tags: Malcolm Smith, State Budgets, Republican Party, Budgets and Budgeting, James Tedisco
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Paterson tells Newsday he opposes sex abuse bill
Spin CycleGov. Paterson is siding with the Catholic church on an Assembly bill sponsored by Margaret Markey of Queens (center in photo) that would allow a one-year suspension of the statute of limitations on lawsuits alleging child sex abuse. As......Tags: Sexual Assault, Crimes, Abusive Behavior, Crime, Law and Justice, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Senate Dems: Taking their suburbanites for granted?
Spin CycleAmid the current struggle at the state Capitol over a bad-news budget, could the new urban-dominated Democratic Senate majority leadership under Malcolm Smith be making the tactical mistake of taking the budget votes of Craig Johnson (D-Port Washington)...Tags: Malcolm Smith, National Government, Republican Party, Long Island, Budgets and Budgeting
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Comptroller DiNapoli first in releasing tax returns
Spin CycleState Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is fond of saying he???s just a ???middle-class guy??? and that???s borne out in his income tax returns. DiNapoli, a former assemblyman from Great Neck, earned $152,613 last year, according to his returns made public........Tags: State Budgets, Thomas P. DiNapoli, David A. Paterson, Personal Income, Wages and Pensions
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Big L.I. title firm -- and pol donor -- shut amid intrigue
Spin CycleLong Island political circles were abuzz that Liberty Title, a well-connected seven-year-old company with offices in RexCorp Plaza, reportedly shut its doors while accused in a lawsuit of embezzlement by four title-insurance companies. LIBN posts...Tags: Embezzlement, Tim Bishop, Republican Party, Long Island, Crime, Law and Justice
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Shock at death of Stephen Minarik, 49, GOP leader
Spin CycleFormer state and Monroe County Republican chairman Stephen Minarik, 49, died after suffering a heart attack earlier today, it was announced. News accounts here and here. Also, here. Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) sent along this...Tags: Republican Party, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)
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The 109th annual LCA show: An intimate setting
Spin CycleAttendance at the traditional Legislative Correspondents Association charity show, with its $300 ticket price, shrunk to what its fans and organizers found alarming. The press presentation was "MacDave" in two acts -- Basically, Paterson as Shakespeare'...Tags: Malcolm Smith, Eliot Spitzer, Sheldon Silver, Republican Party, Regional Authority
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Reading between the lines on red-light cameras
Spin CycleNassau County has already planned to restore cuts to youth services and social programs by using revenue from the installation of cameras to catch motorists who run red lights. The bill has passed both houses of the state legislature,......Tags: Society, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Craig Johnson
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After losses, Republicans ask again: Who leads?
Spin CycleThe ???Chairman-Joe-gotta-go??? chorus grows louder in state Republican circles. So far, Joseph Mondello, simultaneously the Nassau chairman, refuses to budge, disputing the charge that he dithers as G.O.P. gloom deepens. The bigger concern for him may be...Tags: Rudy Giuliani, John J. Faso, Republican Party, Republican National Conventions, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Debating public policy at the Nassau County Legislature
Spin CycleMembers of the Nassau County Legislature wrestled with several thorny issues at Monday???s meeting, debating tax policy, debt-to-spending ratios, tax certiorari and the environment ??? to name just a few. It may not have drawn comparisons to Jimmy Smith.....Tags: Jimmy Smith (mixed martial arts), Parliament, Frank Capra Jr., Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Politics
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